4th amendment probably

The 4th amendment doesn't apply to property of your employer. They can do pretty much whatever they want in terms of configuration, tracking, and auto-loading software on it.

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mindslight a day ago | parent [-]

It does when your employer is the US Government. Decades of overt corporate authoritarianism seems to have made some people forget about the very idea of individual rights.

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vitally3643 a day ago | parent [-]

No, it doesn't. The government has the right to manage software on devices they own just like any other business.

You can just say you think trump is an authoritarian sack of assholes, you don't need to invent bullshit legal fairy tales. That's not how this works.

	▲	knollimar a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isn't there a court case with a different legal standard here? Like pagers or something
	▲	mindslight a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> government has the right to manage software on devices they own just like any other business The government is not a business. > you don't need to invent bullshit legal fairy tales Constitutional rights that are meant to explicitly restrain the government are not "bullshit legal fairy tales".